Day January 24, 2023

Sin analgésicos opioides para aliviar el dolor de rodillas y otras articulaciones, Arnold Wilson no podría caminar media cuadra. El ex enfermero de la ciudad de Nueva York, de 63 años, tiene una artritis incapacitante y toma OxyContin dos veces…

El fiscal general de California, Rob Bonta, presentó una demanda el jueves 12 de enero contra las seis principales empresas que dominan el mercado de la insulina en Estados Unidos, intensificando el ataque del estado a una industria rentable, por…

Una nueva variante del coronavirus está circulando, la más transmisible hasta el momento, con hospitalizaciones en aumento. Y los adultos mayores representan casi el 90% de las muertes por covid-19 en Estados Unidos en los últimos meses, la porción más…

Coming Full Circle on Protections for Those With Disabilities As a retired special education teacher, I’m wondering why our elderly in retirement homes aren’t covered by the American with Disabilities Act (“‘Impending Intergenerational Crisis’: Americans With Disabilities Lack Long-Term Care…

With time running out in the 2022 congressional session, a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers and infectious disease specialists is scrambling to pass a bill aimed at spurring the development of antibiotics to combat the deadly spread of drug-resistant pathogens. The…

Without opioid painkillers to dull the ache in his knees and other joints, Arnold Wilson wouldn’t be able to walk half a block. The 63-year-old former New York City nurse has crippling arthritis for which he takes OxyContin twice a…

Controlled substances became a little less controlled during the pandemic. That benefited both patients (for their health) and telehealth startups (to make money). Some potentially addictive medications — like buprenorphine and Adderall — are now far more available online to…

Julie Rovner is Chief Washington Correspondent and host of KHN’s weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy…

California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Thursday sued the six major companies that dominate the U.S. insulin market, ratcheting up the state’s assault on a profitable industry for artificially jacking up prices and making the indispensable drug less accessible for…

SAN FRANCISCO — Health care’s business class returned to its San Francisco sanctuary last week for JPMorgan’s annual health care confab, at the gilded Westin St. Francis hotel on Union Square. After a two-year pandemic pause, the mood among the…

Larry McMahon, who turned 80 in December, is weighing whether to undergo a major surgery. Over the past five years, his back pain has intensified. Physical therapy, muscle relaxants, and injections aren’t offering relief. “It’s a pain that leaves me…

HELENA, Mont. — State lawmakers from both parties have shown support for a plan to stop the practice of committing people with Alzheimer’s disease, other types of dementia, or traumatic brain injuries without their consent to the troubled Montana State…

[UPDATED at 11 a.m. ET] MALMO, Minn. — Eight women, all 73 or older, paced the fellowship hall at Malmo Evangelical Free Church to a rendition of Daniel O’Donnell’s “Rivers of Babylon” as they warmed up for an hourlong fitness…

A new coronavirus variant is circulating, the most transmissible one yet. Hospitalizations of infected patients are rising. And older adults represent nearly 90% of U.S. deaths from covid-19 in recent months, the largest portion since the start of the pandemic.…

Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names. U.S. Health Care Is Harmful to One’s Health Thank you for publishing this research (“Hundreds of…

Patients at surgeries with a high turnover of GPs are more likely to need emergency hospital treatment than those with steady care, a study has found. Family doctors with revolving staff were less likely to offer same day appointment or…

Women are being let down by the Government’s ‘glacial’ progress on making workplaces menopause-friendly, MPs warn A report called for urgent action to prevent menopausal women quitting jobs But ministers sparked fury by rejecting five of its recommendations outright Government…

Poll Ministers have controversially rejected a proposal to trial a specific menopause leave policy for women undergoing ‘the change’. The Government also shot down another recommendation by the Women and Equalities Committee to make menopause a protected characteristic under the Equality…

It’s a cruel disease which kills thousands across Britain and the US each year.  Yet awareness of cervical cancer‘s tell-tale symptoms remains low, charities say. To mark cervical cancer awareness week, MailOnline looked at the well-known, and less-so, symptoms to watch…

Forget stress balls or breathing exercises. Aromatherapy might be the best way of dealing with the pressures of work, researchers think. Nurses who wore a vial of rose oil around their neck for a month — allowing them to inhale…

Despite this success, after a month at university, where I was studying politics, I wanted to drop out. The social expectations were just so intense. Socials in some of my societies were compulsory, I had to talk to people in…

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However, in its response to the report, published on Tuesday, the government rejected outright five of the committee’s proposals, including a recommendation for the government to work with a large public sector employer to “develop and pilot a specific menopause…